<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>SacredWilderness.Net</title>
	<link>http://sacredwilderness.net</link>
	<description>... dispatches from the girl on the mountain</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:44:01 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.2.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>Not a bad prance-dance, guy.  Love the fluorescent feathers.  Next!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my next life, I&#8217;d like to be a girl-bird. That way, for a change, I can let the males of the species preen and prance and display and try to impress me with their great beauty, dancing, and nest-building prowess, while I kick back &#8212; comfortable, relaxed, and happy in my plain brown feathers.]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2012/01/not-a-bad-prance-dance-guy-love-the-fluorescent-feathers-next/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Life Among the Merchants-in-Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since getting accepted into the MA in Counseling program at Sonoma State, the first question I’m usually asked by friends is, “How’s grad school?” and I never know how to answer. I’m tempted to go with an old cliché (variously attributed to war, law and science) and respond, “Grad school consists of long periods of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/11/life-among-the-merchants-in-training/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>&#8220;Excuse me; I need to shudder.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one quality a therapist must bring to the counseling session above all, it&#8217;s attention. Even if this weren&#8217;t being drummed into us on a near-daily basis &#8212; in professors&#8217; lectures, in video demonstrations, and in our textbook readings &#8212; it&#8217;s pretty obvious that a therapist needs to offer &#8220;presence&#8221; to a client. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/10/excuse-me-i-need-to-shudder/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Walk With Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an appointment to meet with my MFT program adviser on campus this morning at 10 a.m. My destination took me through a small landscaped quad area which, because classes were in session, was deserted except for one young student, sitting on a bench, talking on her cellphone &#8212; and sobbing. (Quick aside: I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/08/walk-with-me/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Camp Seabow Songbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Camp Seabow Songbook A Work in Progress by Ann Clark [formerly Patty Clark] From my memories at Camp Seabow, @1962 &#8211; 1967 Some of the following songs were sang only on the bus or in the dining hall (Noble Duke of York), some were exclusive to Camp Seabow, some were simply old folk songs, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/07/camp-seabow-songbook/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Steinbeck and Spirituality and the Most Important Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to foist books on friends. What I love will either be loved with the same ferocity (as when I asked my friend Ranse to read London&#8217;s &#8220;Call of the Wild&#8221;) or it will be sheepishly returned with some variation of &#8220;Sorry, I didn&#8217;t have time&#8221; (translation: I hated it by page two). It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/06/steinbeck-and-choice/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>SRJC Ya Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m exceedingly pleased that the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat published the Close to Home piece that I recently submitted for publication, in which I express my gratitude for my time at our local community college. What follows is the article in its entirety.~Ann GUEST OPINION: A bittersweet farewell to SRJC By ANN CLARK Published: Wednesday, May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/05/srjc-ya-later/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Bystander Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During psychology class today we were having a discussion about the &#8220;bystander effect&#8221; &#8212; that particular phenomenon which, in 1964, led to 38 people ignoring the screams of Kitty Genovese when she was being brutally murdered. The professor was showing other famous case studies on the effect and asking us questions. At one point a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/01/the-bystander-effect/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>One Smart Cookie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My niece reports the following conversation she had with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter: Mama: &#8220;Hannah, how did you get to be so smart?&#8221; Hannah: (a slight pause) &#8220;Cookieeees!&#8221; I&#8217;ve always suspected that creme filling had unique and unexplored properties.]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/01/one-smart-cookie/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The First 43 Miles are the Hardest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when a sheltered, middle-class, mildly neurotic 33-year-old embarks on her first backpacking trip? When my friend Stuart invited me to go on a seven-day backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada, my first instinct was to politely decline. I am, after all, what could be called a Protestant Princess. I used to require a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacredwilderness.net/2011/01/the-first-43-miles-are-the-hardest/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

